Within Festival 2015: Australian workplace March Studio has been awarded the Planet Interior of the Yr prize for its style of a sculptural timber lobby and utilitarian bar at a Canberra hotel.
March Studio’s position in the Hotel Hotel project was to layout the ground floor spaces, which run among the building’s two entrances. The studio’s response was to strategy an interior filled with recycled timber, concrete beams and steel panelling.
In the lobby, above five,000 wooden offcuts have been fixed about the walls and ceiling. The lengths are supported by steel rods that run from floor to ceiling, whilst far more reclaimed timber was employed to produce a grand staircase.
The hotel’s reception spot prospects through to the bar. In each of these spaces, concrete beams had been utilized to develop stacked tables and surfaces. They also extend outside to create a seating area.
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Other specifics consist of circular skylights, a large fireplace, a display punctured by marbles, and a feasting table that divides into distinct sections.
Judges described the project as “a masterful integration of awkward residual spaces into a seamless and delightful interior.”
“The decision of raw elements offers a warmth and familiarity mixed with the pleasure of the unexpected,” they said. “They mix to make a strong but not mind-boggling series of spaces.”
Final yr the Globe Interior of the Year award went to Hong Kong architect Joyce Wang, for a restaurant that combines colonial-fashion furnishings with an industrial warehouse aesthetic. In an interview with Dezeen she described the layout as “accurate to Hong Kong’s past”.
Dezeen is media partner for both the World Architecture Festival and Inside Festival, which concluded nowadays at the Marina Bay Sands hotel and conference centre in Singapore.
Photography is by Peter Bennetts.
